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Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a superb, empathic account of life in a Mumbai undercity.

A nineteenth-century feminist's exceptional life.

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

Has Silvio Berlusconi’s corruption deprived Italians of their liberty?

Timothy Pachirat’s gut-wrenching account of slaughterhouse work.

How did a newspaper that once represented a progressive alternative to the status quo ultimately come to be firmly identified with the state itself?

There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.

Have copyright laws failed?

Gitmo in the present millennium is no departure at all from the American tradition in Guantánamo Bay.

The body of the church of Scientology is not well. Will its main legacy be its contribution to US tax law?